There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, there's a little historical footnote here, if you're interested. The oil company that was authorized by the Treasury Department under Bush… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The British succeeded. India deindustrialized, it ruralized. As the industrial revolution spread in England, India was turning into a poor, ruralized and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“These facts have been completely removed from history. One has to practically scream them from the rooftops.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If [Respulicans] can't get rid of [Obamacare], they're going to have to tell their base, we've been lying to you for the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Bush administration has created an unimaginable catastrophe in Iraq. This should've been one of the easiest military occupations in history and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The leading, the most respected Vietnam historian, military historian Bernard Fall -he was a hawk incidentally, but he cared for the Vietnamese… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Eight months [after 9/11], after the most intensive international investigation in history, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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